Sounds, Stories, Solidarities
Thursday, Jan 25, 2024 from 7-9pm at POST Houston X AtriumJoin Mitchell Center Visiting Artist Asad Ali Jafri and SpaceShift Collective for a listening and storytelling event rooted in radical joy and international solidarity at the Houston Climate Justice Museum in collaboration with Houston artists Mashal Awais, Zain Awais, Christina Novakov-Ritchey, and Matt Manalo. The event brings artists, activists, and community organizers in the values and practices of the Shamiana, a South Asian canopy used for celebrations, rituals, and gathering. The event marks the launch of the Sonic Study, a sound installation and listening space showcasing the work of Mo'min Swaitat and the Learning Palestine Group at POST Houston and the Solar Studios at Rice University, a project stewarded by Christina Novakov-Ritchey and Matt Manalo.
Photos by Jen Bootwala/Cynthia Woods Mitchell Center for the Arts
Let’s Talk About Justice
Saturday, September 20, 2024 from 5-9pm at the Bayou TheaterWe are delighted to invite you to a truly remarkable event as we celebrate the 50th anniversary of the University of Houston-Clear Lake’s prison education program, Transforming Lives by Degrees (TLD). Join us at UHCL on Saturday, September 30th for “Let’s Talk About Justice,” an unforgettable evening of programming, including an art opening with Texas Appleseed, a community organization fair, and a culminating performance of the acclaimed multimedia theater production Lyrics From Lockdown, followed by a talkback with Emmy Award-winning producer, writer, and director Rob Reiner.
Media:
“Actor and director Rob Reiner on the power of the screen and stage to create change”
“University of Houston collaborative project sheds light on social justice through art and dance”
“Bryonn Bain's 'Lyrics from Lockdown" exposes need for reform in justice system through poetry, music, storytelling”
“Review: Lyrics from Lockdown bring Broadway to UHCL”
38th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival
July 17-26, 2015 at the Tides TheatreThe Playwrights Foundation’s 38th Annual Bay Area Playwrights Festival (BAPF) runs July 17-26, 2015 at the Tides Theatre in San Francisco. BAPF 2015 builds on the festival’s historic legacy of innovation in theater that then moves to theaters across the country. This year’s BAPF includes Lauren Gunderson’s The Revolutionists and Geetha Reddy’s On a Wonderverse, both newly penned plays by highly regarded Bay Area playwrights with national profiles, that are being developed In partnership with national and regional theaters. The BAPF 2015 also features Kara Lee Corthron’s Welcome to Fear City and Christine Evans’ Galilee; and exceptional works coming from graduate playwriting programs, including Tearrance Chisholm’s Hooded or Being Black for Dummies (Catholic University), Sam Lahne’s #julys (University of Iowa), and Brendan Pelsue’s Read to Me (Yale University).
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“An alternate new-play universe by the Bay”
Califas Festival
October 2 thru November 23, 2013 at Intersection for the ArtsIntersection for the Arts and California Shakespeare Theater come together this fall to co-produce the Califas Festival, an immersive, story-filled six-week celebration of music, visual art, performance, and more in and around Intersection’s headquarters at 5M (5th and Mission) in San Francisco. The Festival is the culminating event of the Califas Project, a year of creative multimedia exploration in communities around the state. We continue to cross boundaries in art-making, asking what kind of change can happen when an arts event features a letter from a DREAM-Act youth next to portraits of and by women living in SF SROs, the work of MacArthur award- winning Luis Alfaro, and a crowd-sourced playlist of California songs. This is the Califas Festival: a place to discover how our journeys—individual and shared—can help us dream the future of our state.
Media:
“Campo Santo, Cal Shakes do some Califas dreaming”
“Intersection for the Arts and California Shakespeare Present Califas Festival thru 11/17”
